Brain Droppings

Here is some of the weird and superfluous art shenanigans that comes from my head. Usually pertaining to horror and the human form, my pet genres.

[madampufferfish]

Cabin Boy Blues

I am a churning, black sea. Ageless. Cerulean and white crest at my peaks- Angler fish gnash and jerk in my depths. My thoughts: a torrential downpour. I am unfathomable. I am unknowable. Even to myself. One misstep, and I will certainly be lost. I will go down with my ship. Not the dignified, dutiful death of a resigned captain- No, no. The puling, shit-stained death of Richard Parker- Consumed by that which I was fool enough to trust.

[madampufferfish]

Disturbing work doodles on a rainy day.

[madampufferfish]

Another half-finished comic for Vinny vs. Lyle Douchebag's stream of the new Super Smash Bros. As Vinny descended into taking shots of Jack, he warned Lyle to not do the same, and instead said, "Enjoy your victories, man". This was Lyle's response. It was great.

[madampufferfish]

A quickie comic I made after seeing Vinny's Game of Thrones Episode 1 stream...The disappointment when you realize that all attempts at choice are an illusion with Telltale Games...

[grizandnorm]

Tuesday Tips — Portfolio 101.

With the end of the year/the beginning of the year fast approaching, it’s a good time to revamp your portfolio.  These are some quick tips for visual development/character design portfolio.

1.  Know what you want on your finish book. Work backwards — decided on how many pages you want, then work from there.

2.  Best piece on the first page, second best on the last page, and third best in the middle.  (Something that I learned from Art Center.  This doesn’t always work out, but it’s a good thing to remember and I do my best to put my best piece on the first page).

3.  Rythm.  Make sure it flows nicely.  Most of the time, you’re NOT there in person when someone is looking at your book; so it’s a good idea if it tells a story and make sure it is telling who you are as an artist and what can you do to help out the team. 

I also put an example of a thumbnail if I were to plan a 24 pages printed visual development  portfolio.  

Have fun Griz

[madampufferfish]

Dude, yes. I need this. This would have been so helpful with those visits to tattoo parlors in the past. Hmm.

[kagcomix]

Links to the artitsts’ websites:

Melanie Gillman

Raina Telegemeier

Mariko Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki

Noelle Stevenson

Sfé R. Monster

Hope Larson

Faith Erin Hicks

Annie Mok

Erika Moen

Megan Rose Gedris

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This was for a school assignment. I’m not sure my descriptions do these artists justice. I am inspired & amazed by their work every day. It was also difficult to narrow my list down to just 11 individuals because there are SO many good comics being made right now.

In turn, I would love to know which artists inspire you.

[jammyness]

Excellent list. There are so many great cartoonists working today and I heartily endorse this list if you’re looking for new comics. Check out Kathleen’s comics, too, this is just a taste of her really unique style that I’ve really been enjoying lately!

[madampufferfish]

YAY! New comics to check out. Influential and stuff. Important, yes.

[sketchskutch]

I’ve been asked about commissions.  So here you go friends! Life is hard on everyone, but if you wanted to ignore that fact and have some dork (i.e. Me) draw you some nifty things, now’s the time!

Full character drawings with no background start at $20 usd and ramp up from there. For each additional character add half of what the initial would be. So 2 full color characters would be $40 + $20 = $60.  And if you wanna do a simple Background we can make it work.  Take a look at my gallery for general examples of more ish I do.

I really wanna do more comic pages and band related stuff. But I’ll draw pretty much anything.

Also I’ll totally draw nudie things. *Wink WInk Nudge Nudge 

Payment is accepted through Paypal.  Email me at [email protected] or message me hereand we’ll hammer out the details of what you want. 

And if you don’t want anything that’s ok!  We can still be friends.  Just throw me a reblog to spread the word.

[madampufferfish]

Always looking to help a fellow artist spread word of their skills. If anyone's interested, this dude's stuff is pretty darn cool! : )

[randallwallaceart]

Introducing Character Drawcember!

This is a series of drawing prompts I designed for myself to get into a better rhythm of art production and also to think in depth about my characters. I’m posting this in case anyone else would like to work through the list too! :) I purposefully designed the workload to be relatively relaxed, since December is a busy month for a lot of people, myself included.

RULES: Use whatever of your own characters you want to use. You can stick to the same couple of characters or use all different ones. Any medium, and they don’t have to be consistent in style or technique. Basically there are no rules, just use this as a fun opportunity to work on your cast of characters. If you do decide to do this challenge, use the tag Character Drawcember!

WEEK ONE (Dec 1-7)

Sketch…

…a protagonist

…an antagonist

…an old character you don’t use anymore, and then redesign them.

Finish one of these into a full-color piece.

WEEK TWO (Dec 8-14)

Sketch…

…the inside of your character’s room.

…your character as a child, adult, and senior.

…an alternate universe version of one of your characters.

Finish one of these into a full-color piece.

WEEK THREE (Dec 15-21)

Sketch…

…a big group shot of your characters.

…a fake screenshot, as if your characters had their own movie

…your character’s favorite place

Finish one of these into a full-color piece.

WEEK FOUR (Dec 22-28)

Sketch…

…your character in someone else’s style (credit who you were inspired by!)

…three different outfits for your character

…free day- you choose what to draw with your character

CATCHUP (Dec 29-31)

If you’re not done yet (it’s okay!!), use this extra time to finish!

[madampufferfish]

Definitely want to attempt to take up this challenge...who knows how it will actually work out though... ;)

[madampufferfish]

I will never get over my love of drawing afros. They're just awesome. Sketched on the back of a post-it note from work, haha.

[nes-draws]

Quick editorial for New City’s “best of” issue- city life section… finished right before my Mac decided to die.

[madampufferfish]

The colors in this are fantastic. : )

[madampufferfish]

The things I can accomplish if I'd devote more than an hour at a time to my art more often. Dang, I'm super excited about this. On a side note, my grandpa always told me not to swallow the watermelon seeds. o_o

[madampufferfish]

Who doesn't want a zombie swimmer hanging around? I know I would.

[madampufferfish]

My work doodles just take me in some really weird directions sometimes.

[madampufferfish]

Boy, my photoshop sure was being a poop with this one. I was too lazy to restart it and fix things though, so... : )

[madampufferfish]

HooteyVS and I have our first co-op comic in the works. Never have I tried anything this exhilarating or this terrifying with my art. This little boy is going to be the main character. We don't even know his name yet. Any ideas?

[ceebirdy-deactivated20171019]

That time of the year again! If you have a few extra cents, please consider commissioning the bird!!

Sketches waist up are 6USD, and full body 10USD (+4 for extra character on) Clean drawings waist up are 10USD, and full body 15USD (+5 for extra character)

Colors are +1USD and shading/lighting is +1USD.

I take (most) NSFW requests! There’s almost nothing I won’t draw, really, but we’ll discuss. More of my art can be found here (keep in mind I do put extra effort on commissions).

My paypal acc is [email protected] and you can contact me via ask! (You can also ask for my Skype, I’ll give it to you if you ask off anon)

If you can’t buy, please reblog!! It helps a lot! Thank you.

[madampufferfish]

Anyone who is interested in some eye pretties. 

[madampufferfish]

Inktober, day sixteen. One day I'll finish this wicked siren gypsy...Couldn't resist making her voluptuous and curvaceous.